St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25

S E7saSNLAsgreat, but the year
@s4kSes- >=-A4@-zsdJhaS been character
lied by an unusually large number Of
added enterprises.
ST. Paul is destined to become the
great manufacturing. as it now Is the
great johhing and railroad center of the
Northwest. Situated in the midst
of a country of almost bound
less resources, it presents I'M
rivaled inducements to manufacturers
who hope 10 build up great business in
the vast extent of country tributary to
st. Paul. The golden wheat fields Of
the Northwest, the great forests OF Min
neSOta and Wisconsin, with their almost
ineXhauStible supply of lumber, and the
recently discovered and comparatively
undeve!Oped iron mines of the GOgebic
range, stand right at her doors, with an
unfailing supply of raw materials only
waiting 10 be worked up and sent
throughout the tributary country. ST.
Paul has unriyaled railroad facilities.
and is known as the railroad center of
the Northwest, but this is not all.
st. Paul is almost seaport.
On the completion of new short line
railroad 10 Duluth, st. Paul will have
three independent lines connecting her
with the Zenith City. This fact will
knock cut all possibility of a railroad
combination being made against her,
and will insure low rates on both rail-
roads and lakes.
The time is fast approaching when
st. Paul. with extensive factories, will
manufacture the agricultural timple-
mentS. the furniture, the machinery;
handle the wheat and cattle, and, in
short, be the center, the fountain head
of the greatest provincial trade and
manufacturing interests Oh the CONT
nent. The stock yards, now so nearly
finished, will make st. Paul
A GREAT CENTER
of that business; wagon and carriage
shops; iron fOundrieS and woodworking
factories: machine shops and furniture
factories: tinWare and coffin factories,
all established within the year past. A
half dozen suburban manufacturing
towns have grown up i'll less than a
year, with an aggregate population of
not less than 1900 peOple-all these en-
plOyed in the factories, near which their
neat and cosy homes are located. st.
Paul will next year be abreast with
Chicago in the slaughter house and
packing business; in the future
her near proximity to the
GOgebic range will make her the Pitts
burg of the West in the iron manu-
facture. and withal distributing cen
ter for the grandeSt, most prosperous
and fertile portion of the United States.
Having all these advantages, it is not
strange that the past year has witnessed
a wonderful growth in the way of man
ufactOrieS. and manufacturing suburbs
have sprung up on every hand, and that
the well-to-dO and prosperous laboring
man and the heavy business man and
manufacturer go about with feeling
of content, satisfied that the future of
st. Paul is assured. The homes
of the laboring men are not confined to
any quarter or any section of the city.
but the early morning light looks down
on the humble dinner pail in every
quarter of the city, These humble
homes are scattered everywhere
throughout its limits. A more remark
able and hopeful sign for the future of
st. Paul is the fact that the idle and
gOOd-fOr-nOthing class of labOring men
is surprisingly small, and that the
homes of the real labOrers of the city
are largely in their hands. Indeed, al
most every industrious and temperate
labOring man in the SANITY City is
either the happy owner of neat little
house and lot, or else he is paying for
one as rapidly as his Scanty means will
permit.
As manufacturing jObbing and rail-
road center, with the argument that it
is a city OF homes. St Paul can COM
pete with any city in the land. She has
the resources. the tributary country,
the money. and, in fact, all that is nee
eSsary to turn a city of 10000 to-day
into one of $4,000 in less than ten years
time.
NEW ENTERPRISES.
Among the new enterprises are II. A.
Muckle Il Co., at st. Paul Park, in
Sleighs. cutters, ETC.; at st. Paul Park,
the ". Il. Church Cart company; also
at St. Paul Park, the Beach Wagon
company; at North st. Paul, the
Clement Paint and FarniSh works; at
the foot of jackson street, J. c. Spencer
Il Co. SleighS, wagons and carriages; at
North st. Paul, the Harris Man
ufacturing company; at North ST.
Paul also, the Cremer d
COney Manufacturing company,
also at North st. Paul; w. H. KOnantZ.
harness and Saddlery; Keller IL Scott
and Burns q Shaw, lumber; c. I.
Corning & Co.. in bricks, tiles and terra
Gotta: the St. Paul Shoe company, the
st. Paul BOttling Works, the st. Paul
Stained Glass company, the Harvester
Patent Binder company, the Simmons
Refrigerator company, the Severance
Validating Machine company; the
Watrous Engine works, branch Of a
Canadian concern, the st. Paul
CaSket company, the st. Paul Silk COM
pany. and many others. Figures giving
an idea of the magnitude of some of
these concerns are partly gathered from
the Dun Mercantile agency. The Beach
Wagon company is working upon a
capital of $4,000, will employ about SO
men and is able for an annual output of
from $50, 900 to 100000. The Church
Cart company, which has been in bust
ness about ninety days, will have an
nual output of about 100000. Its
capital is about $4,000, and its
force will be about % hands.
Muckie IL Co, upon a capital of $4,000.
and with 81 men are good for an annual
output of $4,000. J. L. Spencer q Co.
is comparatively rich concern, with a
capital of about 100000. This company
will give employment to about seventy
five men, and it expects to output about
$250, 900 annually. The Cremer 4 COney
Manufacturing company will do bust
ness amounting to all of SIS, 200. The
Simmons Refrigerator company has in
corpOrated upon basis of 100000 cap
ital stock, and seven new cigar and
tobacco manufactures have been
started with combined capital of $780,
900, and good tor an annual output of
over 100000 worth. The st. Paul
Knitting works have developed into a
pretty big institution with magnificent
factory near Newport. The l24 new
manufacturing enterprises added to
the city since the year commenced
represent an added business capital
of s., 637. 600. They provide work for
about 1900 more men. Their output
annually will amount TO not less than
S4,2O0,00O. and they have already con-
the production of 1887. The total num-
Der of manufacturing enterprises now